Match-lighting attachment to hats



I. L. CLARK. Match-Lighting Attachment to Hat's, 800.

No. 224,878. Patented Feb. 24, I880.

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FRANKLIN L. CLARK, OF LANOASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

MATCH-LIGHTING ATTACHMENT TO HATS, 8w.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,878, dated February24, 1880.

I Application filed January 26, 1880.

.Toall whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANKLIN L. CLARK, ofLancaster, in the county of Lancaster and .State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented'certain new and useful Improvements in Match-Lightin gAttachments to Hats, 8tc.; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon,

which form a part of thisspecitication.

This invention relates to an improved attachment forhats, caps, andother. like arti- ,cles; and it consists in the construct-ion andarrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, andpointed out by the claim.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 2 isabottom View,

in lighting a match for the purpose of igniting a cigar, cigarette, orpipe in the open air, and in some instances it is impossible. By myarrangement of providing a piece of roughened material upon the insideof a hatthe match may be lighted upon it and the wind kept off by thesides of the hat, thereby allowing the cigar, 850., to be ignitedwithout further trouble.

The device is very simple in arrangement, but it provides a means thathas long been needed of igniting the articles mentioned, and one that isalways ready for use and not liable to get out of repair.

Having thus fully described my invention,

Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, an article of head-wear having securedupon its inside set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANKLIN L. CLARK.

Witnesses:

;;,JAMES M, CLARK,

W. B. WILEY.

what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by.

a piece of roughened material, for the purpose

